February 20, 2012 - 6:00pm
Is Obama's America God's Country?
February 21, 2012 - 6:00pm
The political beliefs of Barack Obama, said Rick Santorum last week, come out of "some phony theology. ... Not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no less a theology."
Marco Rubio Gets Top Votes for Potential Vice President Spot
Submitted by Anonymous on February 21, 2012 - 6:50pm
More buzz about Florida's junior senator: Marco Rubio got the most mentions as a possible vice presidential candidate, according to a Farleigh Dickinson University poll of Republicans nationally. (For a summary and breakdown, see here.)
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Pro-Obama Super-PAC, Not So Super, Fundraising Reports Reveal
Submitted by Nancy Smith on February 21, 2012 - 6:10pm
Financial disclosures for the month of January reveal why President Obama and his team may have changed their priorities when it comes to embracing the unlimited donations allowed by super-PACs.
Priorities USA, the not-so-super group backing President Obama, reported a mere $59,000 for the first month of the year. That's pocket change compared with Republican counterparts. Restore Our Future, the pro-Mitt Romney group, raised $6.6 million, while Winning Our Future, which fuels Newt Gingrich, raised $11 million.
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Check Out the Point-Counterpoint on Controversial Workers' Comp Drug Repackaging Bill
Submitted by Nancy Smith on February 21, 2012 - 6:01pm
The insurance industry claims physicians overprice for dispensing drugs to workers' comp patients in their own offices. Physicians say no we don't, we keep prices as low as we're able considering we're not Walgreen's, which "buys in" pills by the million.
A meeting of the Senate Health Regulation Committee, postponed last week, has been rescheduled for 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, 412 Knott Building.
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Presidency in Play
February 21, 2012 - 6:00pm
Supreme Court Broadens Redistricting Review
February 20, 2012 - 6:00pm
With about a week to go until oral arguments before the Florida Supreme Court over the state's plan for legislative redistricting, justices are already fighting about how far the court can go in reviewing the new maps.
In what could amount to a victory for opponents of the proposal for carving up House and Senate districts, SJR 1176, the court issued an order Tuesday calling for the Florida Democratic Party and a coalition of voting-rights organizations to hand over information they had on lawmakers' residences.
Chaos Now Front-runner in Florida Senate President Race
Submitted by Nancy Smith on February 21, 2012 - 5:35pm
Rumor squashed: Andy Gardiner is not leaving the Florida Senate president race.
Much to the chagrin of Don Gaetz, John Thrasher and Jack Latvala, Andy Gardiner is not dropping out of the 2014 Florida Senate President race, sources tell Sunshine State News.
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CAIR to Florida Legislature: 'Sharia' Law Would Demonize Islam
Submitted by Anonymous on February 21, 2012 - 5:08pm
Islamic leaders on Tuesday blasted proposed state legislation they said would demonize Islam and marginalize Muslims.
House Bill 1209, which would regulate the application of foreign law in certain cases, is scheduled to be heard by the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said the bill, sponsored by Rep. Larry Metz, R-Eustis, is designed to ensure that Sharia and other foreign laws are not applied to family law cases in Florida.
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Senators Back Anti-Texting and Driving Bill that Remains Idle in House
Submitted by Anonymous on February 21, 2012 - 4:55pm
A bill to make texting while driving illegal in Florida, SB 416, even if just as a secondary offense, cleared the Senate Budget Committee Tuesday, steering the effort toward the Senate floor.
However, the effort may again have to wait a year as the companion bill in the House, HB 299, has failed to get any traction this session in any committee.
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